House GOP Agenda Omits Customs Conferences for Final Legislative Week Before Recess
House Republican leadership left Customs Reauthorization conference votes off the agenda for the upcoming week, despite recent calls in the Senate to wrap up the conference negotiations by August recess (see 1507160059). Congress is expected to depart the Capitol for…
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a month-long recess on July 31. Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., hedged his commitments in the schedule, however, saying the chamber could consider legislative items not explicitly on the agenda. A McCarthy spokesman didn’t respond for comment. Twenty-one House Democrats recently called for inclusion on the full ENFORCE Act in a compromise bill, as well as a number of other priorities (see 1507210020). The Senate tapped Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and five other Finance Committee members as conferees, but the House hasn’t yet followed suit. A spokeswoman for Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Pat Tiberi, R-Ohio, said his office is still “hoping” to cement a compromise before August. Tiberi originally introduced the House customs bill (see 1504240021).